Reel for wire-fabric machines.



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REEL FOR W IREFABRIO MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. [8, 1.911..

1,139,077. Patented May11,1915.

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REEL FOR WIRE FABRIC MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18. 1911,.

1,139,077. Patented May11,1915.

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' REEL FOR WIRE FABRIC MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NIOV- I8, I911- 1,139,Q77. Patented May 11, 1915.

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REEL FOR WIRE FABRIC MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18. 1911..

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REEL FOR WIRE FABRlC MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18. I911.

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REEL FOR WIRE-FABRIC MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed November 18,1911. Serial No. 660,953.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE E. SAFFORD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at useful Improvements in Reelsfor Wire- Fabric Machines; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

and to the characters of reference marked especially designed for use inconnection with wire fabric machines, to receive the fabric from saidmachines and w1nd it into bundles as rapidly as the completed fabric isdischarged from the loom.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangements of partshereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide comparatively simple andefficient means through the medium of which the completed fabric from aloom or fabric machine may be continuously wound into bundles and saidbundles periodically discharged from the reel without interrupting theoperation of the fabric machine, provision being made for severing thelongitudinal strands of the fabric after each bundle shall have beencompleted, and for automatically securing them to the succeeding windingdrum initiatory to the starting of the successive bundle. Provision isalso made for readily collapsing the winding drums of the reel tofacilitate discharging the completed bundles and for replacing inoperative position in the reel the drumsin succession from which thebundles have been discharged.

The invention further contemplates driving means through the medium ofwhich the Figure 1 is a plan view of a reel embodying my invention,parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the structureshown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view in section, as on line 33of Fig. 2, through the driving gear of one of the winding drums andthrough one of the spider arms of the reel carrying the shaft of saiddrum, showing the detent or spring actuated locking dog carried on thegear engaging the web of said arm to preventa backward turning of thewinding drum. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the reel showing the end ofthe reel opposite to that illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentaryview in section through one of the columns carrying the shaft of thereel, and through one of the webbed arms carrying the winding drums,showing a detent or spring actuated locking dog mounted on said columnand engaging the web of said arm to prevent a backward turning of thereel when swung into a position to wind the completed fabric onto one ofthe drums thereof. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan View partly in sectionillustrating the position of parts prior to the actuating of the cuttingbar for severing the longitudinal strands of the fabric at thecompletion of each bundle. Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the positionof parts at the completion of the operation of severing said strands,and bending the ends of the severed strands so as to fasten them to oneof the bars of the drum on which the succeeding bundle of fabric iswound. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary elevation partly in section illustratingthe position of parts shown in Fig. 6 with the fabric omitted andshowing the shaft of the winding drum. Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view inlongitudinal section showing the main shaft of the reel, a pair of thespider arms mounted thereon carrying one of the WIHLl' ing drums, andthe disks of said drum in thereof, said section being taken on line 1111 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the characters of reference, 1 designates the columns inwhich the main shaft 2 of the reel is journaled, said shaft beingsupported at its ends in suitable bearing boxes 3 on said columns. Fastto the shaft 2 near one end thereof is a spider comprising the radialarms 4 extending from acommon hub 5 through which said shaft 2 passes.Near the opposite end of the shaft 2 is a spider comprising radial arms6 extending from a common hub 7 through which the shaft 2 also passes.These spiders are so disposed on the shaft 2 that the corresponding armsthereof stand in radial alinement with respect to the shaft 2 so as tocause the corresponding arms of said spiders to cooperate in pairs informing supports for the shafts 8 of the winding drums. As hereinillustrated each of the spiders consists of three radially extendingarms affording a reel having three winding drums onto which the productfrom a wire fabric machine may be successively wound, as hereinafterexplained.

Mounted on one end of the main shaft 2 is a beveled friction wheel 9driven from a friction pinion 10 which turns in peripheral contacttherewith, and which is mounted upon a horizontally extending shaft 11.At the opposite end of the shaft 11 is a beveled pinion 12 which issplined thereon and is adapted to have meshing engagement with a beveledgear 13 which may be driven from any suitable source of power. Thebeveled pinion 12 is moved longitudinally of the shaft 11 to carry itinto and out of engagement with the gear 13 through the medium of a bellcrank lever 14, which is fulcrumed at 15 on the frame and is providedwith a forked end 16 which embraces the channeled hub 17 of said pinion.The opposite end of the lever 11 extends freely into an opening 18formed through an actuating lever 19 which is fulcrumcd at 20 and isadapted to have a slight movement in the arc of a. vertical circle. itsfulcrum the bell crank lever will be actuated to carry the pinion 12into and out of mesh with the pinion 13, as may be desired.

\Vhen theshaft 11 is rotated from the gear 13 it will turn the mainshaft 2 of the reel and swing the winding drums in a circle around theaxis thereof, the purpose of which is to carry each of the Winding drumsas required into operative position. Each of the winding drums comprisesa shaft 8 As the lever 19 is swung on supported in a disk 25, which isfixed to and turns with a short shaft 26 (see, F 1g. 9)

- journaled in the end of each of the arms a.

The inner end of each of the shafts 26 is provided with a tapered socketwhich receives the tapered end 27 of the shaft 8, the opposite end ofthe shaft 8 of each of the winding drums being journaled in a slottedbearing 28 in the outer end of each of the arms 6, being held therein bya transverse pin 29 crossing said slot.

Upon the projecting end of the short shaft 26 of each of the windingdrums is a spur gear 30 which meshes with a gear 231 011 the inner endof a sleeve 32, which is loosely mounted on the end of the main shaft 2.On the side of the gear 31 is a beveled frietion surface or gear 83adapted to have peripheral contact with a frictional driving pinion 34Lsecured to one end of a longitudinally extending shaft 35. Splined uponthe opposite end of shaft 35 is a beveled pinion 36 adapted to havemeshing engagement with a beveled gear 37 which may be driven from thesame source of power employed to drive beveled gear 13. It will benoted, especially on referring to Fig. 2, that all of the gears 30 ofthe winding drums are in constant mesh with the gear 31 driven throughthe medium of the friction gears 53 and 31, whereby, as shaft 85revolves, each of the winding drums will be caused to revolve abouts itsshaft 8.

The pinion 36 is caused to slide longitudinally of shaft for the purposeof carrying it into and out of mesh with gear 37 through the medium of ahell crank lever 38, which is fulcrumed at 39 and is provided with aforked end 40 which embraces the channeled hub 11 ofsaid pinion. Theopposite end of said bell crank, like crank 1-t, extends through anopening in an operating lever 12 fuicrumed at 43, hereby, upon amovement of said lever on its fulcrum, thebell crank will be carried toslide the pinion 36 upon its shaft 35, which movement will carry it intoand out of engagement with the driving gear 37 as may be desired. \Vhenthe winding drums are being revolved it is never desirable to revolvethe whole reel; therefore the bell crank levers 1-! and 38are soconnected by a connecting rod H as to cause them to be actuated inunison, the arrangement being such that when bell crank 38 is moved tocarry the pinion 36 into mesh with the gear 37, pinion 12 on shaft 11will be actuated to carry it from engagement with the gear 13. Ittherefore. follows that when pinion 12 is actuated to carry it into meshwith its driving gear, pinion 36 will be moved out of engagement withits driving gear 37.

One of the longitudinal bars in each of the winding drums is a channeledbar (see Figs. 6, 7 and 8) provided with regisa notched free end adaptedto engage the projecting web 54 on the radial arms 6 at a time when theactive drum is 1n operative position to prevent a backward turning of Itering slots 46 in the margins thereof. Ly-

spondwith the spacing of the strand wires 49 of the fabric, so that saidstrands will enter and lie in said registering slots and channels asshown in Fig. 6. position of the parts when the fabric starts to windupon one of the drums at the inception of the operation of the reel butafter a bundle has been formed upon one of the drums and the reel isswung to bring the succeeding drum into winding position, the line ofthe running fabric from the loom or fabric machine to the reel is suchas to cause the longitudinal strands thereof to draw into theregistering slots and channels in the channeledibar and slide bar ofsaid succeeding drum. As the reel then swings upon its main shaft 2 tobring the drum onto which the fabric leads into the uppermost or windingposition, the projecting end of the slide bar 47 engages the inclinedface of a fixed cam 50 suitably mounted on the frame, which, as the reelcontinues to swing, will crowd the bar 47 longitudinally so as to shiftthe channels 48 therein out of alinement with the slots 46 of thechanneled bar This operation will shear off the longitudinal strands onthe far side of the channeled bar and will bend the severed ends of saidstrands on the near side of said bar so as to form hooked terminals 51,as clearly shown in Fig. 7 which lie in the short longitudinal recesses52 in the slide bar 47, which, in this operation becomes a cutter barwhich severs the longitudinalstrands and turns the severed ends thereofinto hooked engagement with the channeled bar 45, whereby said strandsare not only severed to permit of the removal from the reel of acompleted bundle, but are also looked to the succeeding winding "drum ina manner to insure the forming of a bundle thereon as said drumrevolves.

' To hold the reel against backward turning upon its shaft 2 when one ofits windingidrums is being revolved to winda bundle thereon, there isprovided upon the inner face of one of the columns 1 (see Fig. 5) aspring actuated dog or detent 53 having the reel because of the strainofthe wind.- ing fabric thereon.

In order torhold each ofathe winding drums against'backward rotationthere is This is the employed upon the inner face of each of the gears30 (see Figs. 2 and 3) a spring actuated pawl or detent 55 having anotch in its free end adapted to engage the web 56 of the arms 4. Bythis arrangement the winding drums are locked'against backward rotationwhile they are being swung from the filled to the discharging position.

It will be noted on referring to Fig. 9,

that, as each of the disks 25 is revolved through the medium of its gear30, the complementary portion of the winding drum is caused to revolvetherewith because of the engagement of the bars 23 at (tiheliir ends inopenings in the web of said After a Winding drum has been filled, orafter a complete bundle has been formed thereon, the formed bundle maybe discharged from the drum by rotating the reel so as to carry thefilled drum from the winding position downwardly to the dischargingposition. This movement will carry the succeeding druin into the windingposition to receive the fabric from the loom, whereby the operation ofthe reel is made continuous. When a filled drum has been swungdownwardly to the discharging position the bundle thereon maybe removedtherefrom by removing the transverse pin free from engagement with theends of the bars 23, said bars may be collapsed by swinging themlongitudinally upon the pivoted links 22, thereby reducing the diameterof the drum of the reel sufiiciently to enable it to be readilywithdrawn from the bundle. The collapsedbars 23 are then restored totheir normal position,,and the shaft and drum replaced in .the reel toagain be brought into use for winding the fabric thereon in its regularturn. During the operation of removing a formed bundle a succeedingbundle is being wound upon the drum which at that time is in operativeposition in the reel. I

To keep the cutter bars 47 within the channeled bars 45 they areprovided with laterally projecting pins 57 which extend intolongitudinal slots 58 in the side of the channeled bars, and retain thecutter bars therein while allowing said bars to reciprocatelongitudinally.

Having thus fully set forth my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wire fabric reel, a rotatable wind- This ing drum, comprising acentral shaft and longitudinally extending bars hinged thereto, disksforming the ends of said drum receiving and supporting said bars, meansfor rotating said drum, one of said disks connected with said rotatingmeans, the other of said disks beingmovable longitudinally of the shaftof the drum, and means for permitting'the withdrawal of the shaft ofsaid drum from its supporting bearings.

' 2. A- wire fabric reel, comprising a rotatable frame, a plurality ofwinding drums mounted in said frame, means for rotating said frame,means for revolving said drums independently of the frame rotatingmeans, and means carried by each Winding drum actuatable by the rotationof the frame for severing the strand-wires of the fabric as said drumsin succession swing into winding 2 position.

3. A wire fabric reel comprising a plurality of spaced winding drums,means for imparting bodily movement to said drums in a predetermineddirection, means for rotating the forward drum about an axis at rightangles to the general direction in which the drums may be moved to fillsaid forward drum, means for severing the longitudinal strands of wireafter the forward drum is filled and for positively engaging the ends ofthe strands of the main portion of fabric -in the succeeding drum afterthe severing of the portion on the filled drum, and means for actuatingsaid severing means while the drums are being moved in the predetermineddirection.

4. A wire fabric reel, comprising a main rotary frame, a plurality ofwinding drums journaled in said frame, means for rotating the mainframe, means for revolving said drums, each of said drums havingshearing plates, and means for actuating a shearing.

plate on each drum at a predetermined point in the circle described bythe rotation of the main frame. I

5. A wire fabric reel, comprising a' rotatable frame, a plurality ofrevoluble drums detachably mounted in said frame,- means for turning theframe, means for revolving said drums, and means carried by each of thedrums for severing the strand wires of the fabric and bending the endsof the severed strands into engagement with a member of the severingdevice.

6. A wire fabric reel comprising a rotatable frame, a winding drummounted therein to revolve and swing in the arc of a vertical circle, achanneled bar setting longitudinally of the drum having notches toreceivethe strand Wires, a reciprocatory cutter bar sliding in saidchanneled bar and having channels which normally register with saidnotches, said cutter bar also having channels, a cam plate adapted toco- M operate with the cutter bar as the frame re volves to actuate saidbar to sever the strands of the fabric, and bend the ends of the severedstrands into the channeled bar so as to lie in the recess of the cutterbar.

7'. A rotatable winding drum comprising a central shaft andlongitudinally extending bars hinged thereto, bearings for the shaft,members forming the ends of said drum supporting said bars, means forrotating said drum, one of the end-forming members being connected withthe rotating means, the other of said end-forming members being movablelongitudinally of the shaft of the drum, and means-permittingthe shaftof said drum to be withdrawn from its supporting bearings.

8. A reeling mechanism comprising a movable support, a plurality ofwinding drums mounted on the support, means for moving the support,means for revolving said drums idependently of the support moving means,and means carried by each Winding drum actuable by the movement of thesupport for severing the strand wires of the fabric as said drums insuccession move into winding position.

9. A reeling mechanism comprising a main movable support, a plurality ofwinding drums journaled in said support, means for moving the support,means for revolving the drums, each of said drums having coactingshearing members, means, in respect to which the support is movable, foractuating one of the shearing members at a predetermined point in themovement of the main support.

10. A fabric reel comprising a movable support, a plurality of revolubledrums detachably mounted in said support, means for moving the support,means for revolving the drums, and means carried by each of the drumsfor severing the strand elements of the fabric and bending the ends ofthe severed strands into engagement with a member of the severingdevice.

11. A fabric reel comprising a movable support, means for moving thesupport, a Winding drum thereon transversely to the line ofmovement ofthe support, a bar arranged longitudinally of the drum and havingtransverse channels in one of its faces to receive the strand elementsof the fabric, a second bar also arranged longitudinally of the drum andhaving transverse channels that normally register with the channels inthe first mentioned bar, the channels in one of the bars being extendedlongitudinally to form pockets, one of the bars being movable in respectto the other, and means adapted to cooperate with the movable bar as thesupport moves to actuate said bar to sever the strands of fabric, and tobend the ends of the severed strands so. as to lie in the pockets.

12. A wire fabric reel comprising'a plu-- rality of spaced windingdrums, means for swinging said drums in the arc of a vertical circle,means for rotating the forward drum about a horizontal axls, means forsevering the longitudinal strands of wire after the forward drum isfilled and for positively engaging the ends of the main portion of thefabric in the succeeding drum after the severing of the 'portion on thefilled drum, and means for actuating said 10 severing means while thedrums are swinging in the arc of the vertical circle.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

CLARENCE E. SAFFORD.

Witnesses:

J. OTTO BAENZIGER, -M. EzBnonsurnn.

